• Book cover titled "Get Started with Gouache" by Emma Block. The cover has a range of gouache painted illustrations including a person holding flowers, an open window, a bird and some cacti.
  • Inside "Get Started With Gouache" by Emma Block. This double page spread is the book's contents page, featuring subjects such as plants and flowers, food, animals, people and places.
  • Inside "Get Started With Gouache" by Emma Block. This double page spread has an introduction from Emma and includes a list of her favourite materials and paint brands.
  • Inside "Get Started With Gouache" by Emma Block. This double page spread introduces the "Food" painting section of the book.
  • Inside "Get Started With Gouache" by Emma Block. This double page spread features a project on drawing simple faces and expressions.
  • Inside "Get Started With Gouache" by Emma Block. This double page spread features a project on painting two stacked teacups and using the negative space technique.
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Get Started With Gouache Book

Get Started With Gouache Book

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A modern, easy-to-follow guide to gouache painting, a medium well-loved amongst illustrators and designers for it's bold colours and flat, matte finish.

This book by Emma Block includes thirty painting projects, from the simple to the more advanced, covering subjects from fruit and flowers to portraits, pets and landscapes. Each project includes clear step-by-step instructions, as well as a handy list of suggested paint colours and brush types.

As well as offering clear instructions and inspiration, each project will help teach you the fundamental techniques used with gouache, including layering, diluting, dry brush, working with negative space and wet-on-wet. A list of suggested materials and introduction to colour theory and palette mixing is also included, making this the ideal book for any beginner to the gouache medium.

Looking for more of Emma Block's books? We also stock the Joy of Watercolour and Keeping A Creative Sketchbook.

  • Paperback, 185 pages.
  • Measures 228mm x 187mm.
  • By Emma Block.
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